Phantom Evil by Heather Graham

 

This is a first book in a new series to me. Paranormal and ghosts. Adam has called Jackson in to tell him that he is going to head of crew that are very special. Jackson has had things happen to him and he has lost members of his last crew. He is skeptical when it comes to ghosts. He is told that he will meet with, Angela, Jake, Whitney, Jenna and Will. They were to find out what happened to Regina Holloway and why she was found laying on the ground of the house her and her senator husband had bought.

Jackson needed to find out everything he could about the house. Besides, while Angela was in the house by herself, she had found a Shelton buried in the basement. Angela knew there were ghosts in the house. She just didn't know how many. Being that they are in New Orleans the city of ghost stories. 

Angela had been in Redina's room laying on the bed with her eyes closed and the felt something. She opened her eyes and saw two kids, a boy and girl playing Jacks on the floor in front of her. Then, she saw the really bad guy that murdered many people in the house standing in front of the kids with an axe. Lets just say it was pretty and she screamed. 

Jackson needed to speak with senator Holloway and everyone that worked for him. He knew that there was more going on then, he was told. Even those conversations didn't completely pan out at first and he just sensed that the senator had been having an affair. The senator did try to explain that his wife really wasn't his wife any more and after their son had died, all she wanted was her son back and not him. 

There was a lot going on in this book and besides the ghosts and something evil in the house. Jackson and all of them, needed to find out the truth. I'll say this, the ending to this book was very good. Pick it up and find out how it ends. It's worth it even though it's a first book in a series. 

All that remains by Patricia Cornwell

 

This is the third book in the Kay Scarpetta series. First of all, I got to say that this women is a very smart, very human and really good at her job. 

There have been a total of 4 couples that have been murdered in the area of Richmond Virgina. Kay Scarpetta is the one doing the autopsies in the county. Marino is the head detective on the seen of the fifth murder and this time it's a high profile one. Debbie is the daughter of a high ranking person that works under the President. To Kay and Marino it isn't going to be easy. Then, Bentan shows up. What the hell is the FBI doing here. 

Kay knows that when he shows up things aren't going to go so will. She hates her job at times and when Bentan asks her to hold off on her reports, which is something she doesn't like doing. Something is up. 

Then, she gets a call from her friend Abby. She's a reporter and say she's got some information and could she meet her at a coffee shop not far from her apartment. Abby, tells Kay that she thinks she's being watched, followed and someone has broken into her apartment. Kay thinks Abby is just being paranoid. Is she? 

When the mother of Debbie, Pat. Calls Kay and asks her to come to her house. Kay knows this may not be a good idea. But, she goes. Pat, starts asking her all kinds of questions and Kay keeps trying to tell her that she can't answer those questions right now. Pat accuses her of hiding things. Kay walks out of that house asking her some of those questions as will. 

This book moves fast and you find out things about the killer. But, you'll have to read the book to know how it ends. I really don't like giving away the endings. That's why I say read the book. It's worth it. Every single page.  

On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah

Annie and Blake were taking their daughter to the airport, because she was going to London for spring. After dropping her off and they get home, he tells her that he wants a divorce. It sends her for a loop. She's loved him for almost 20 years. He also tells her that he's been sleeping with someone else. I think in a way she sort of new that he'd been doing that for awhile. 

So she cried for a few days, maybe a week. Then, decides to go back home and visit her dad in Mystic. It might help her or it might be worse. After a few more days of crying her dad is getting tired of it and tells her to do something. She says she might as will go get a make over. She meets a quickie women that gives her a short hair cut and changes everything she looks like. She also hears about Nick. Nick lost his wife about a year ago and he has a daughter Izzy. She doesn't talk. 

She decides to go out and see him. Ask him if she can help him out by watching his daughter. When he opens the door and sees her. He's surprised. He lets her in. He gets them something to drink and grabs a blanket. He heads to the lake. They both sit down and it becomes a little strange between them, tell he moves closer to her and kisses her and then the clothes come off. Pretty much they have crazy hot sex right there and afterwards, she thinks, what the hell did she do. He tells her not to feel bad and she runs for the car. He follows. How does Monday sound concerning Izzy. 

Nick's a cop in the town. Once Annie starts watching Izzy she notices that she's wearing a black glove. Izzy thinks she disappearing like her mother disappeared. It will take some time to get Izzy to come around and it doesn't help that her dad comes home late and has been drinking. There are a lot of things wrong in this family. It's going to take awhile to help them, which is what she's good at. 

After getting angry at him and telling him he needs to be home for his daughter. It takes him getting into an accident to wake him up. He begs Annie to take him to a motel and watch his daughter while he deals with himself. He starts going to AA meetings and it will be a one day at a time thing. 

After having feelings for Nick and getting closer to him and his daughter, Blake shows up. She also finds out that she's pregnant with his child. It just about breaks Nicks's heart to see her go back home. 

Lets put it this way, with all the ups and downs in this book. I was wanting a happy ending. Love, real close, heart thumping love doesn't happen for everyone. This book had tore my heart out more then once. I couldn't put it down. Pick it up and read it if you haven't yet. 

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

 

This is the third book in the mortal instruments series. This was a page turner. 

Clary was needing to go to Alicante with Jace, Isabelle, Alec and everyone else that was going. Magnus was making the portal for everyone to go through. But, Jace didn't want Clary to go. Even though that she needed the potion to bring her mom back. She's been at the hospital for quite awhile. Jace thought it wasn't worth her coming with and he asked Simon to come to the institute to talk. Jace wanted Simon to tell Clary that she was to stay and Simon knew that wasn't going to go over will.

The next thing, Demons started to show up.  Simon wasn't prepared for what was going to happen and getting perry badly hurt. Jace has no choice but, to bring Simon through the portal to save his life. 

Luke was helping clary pack and get ready to go. At first he wasn't sure he wanted her to go. She had found out that they had already left and had been attacked by demons. Now, she needed to create her own way there. She knew she could create her own runes. So, she did and in the process, Luke ended up going with. The landed in a lake, when they go to the other side. She almost drowned, tell Luke saved her. But, now she was poisoned. He said that he knew someone that could save her but, she was going to see things and hear things tell they do. 

Amatis is Lukes sister and very good with herbs. When they showed up at her house, first she almost didn't let them in. Then, she did. Luke took Clary up to bed while his sister made what she needed to bring up to Clary to drink. 

Simon is a vampire and he can walk in the sunshine. The head of the vampires doesn't think it's a great idea him being able to do that. Alec, told Simon that the clave had a portal to send him back to New York. But, when they got up there, he ended up being imprisoned by them. He was getting a little weak from not eating and didn't know what was going to happen to him. 

In the cell next to him, was a guy that started talking to him. Told him, that he's been there awhile. He also knows that they will not let him go unless he tells the clave a lie ot two. Which Simon will never do. 

Clary meets Sebastian and right off the bat, there was something not quite right about him.

Well, I'm going to leave that there. If you haven't read the book yet. You will have to read it to find out how it ends. I'll just say this. I didn't expect what happens to happen. It was differently a page turner.  

A traitor to memory by Elizabeth George

 

This is part of a series DI Thomas Lynley and DC Barbara Havers series. Very good series and I've only read this book. 

Katie was walking to her car when out of know where a car came and hit her. It didn't stick around and she was left there all alone. 

Then, there's Gideon, he's writing in a journal to his doctor about things that has happened in his life. He doesn't understand why he can't play his violin any more. every time he picks it up he tries and he just can't. He was really good for a long time then something happened. Now, he's writing to figure it out with his doctor. 

His dad Robert, doesn't understand why he's having this problem and things between them just aren't the same. His dad has lived through Gideon since he was 6 years old. Making the money to pay for lessons and taking him all over the place to do concerts. They were making money and showing off his talent. Other then, that, nothing else seemed to be going on.

A few days later, Gideon finds out from his father that his mother was murdered by a hit and run driver and the coppers are looking and talking to everyone that knew her. Robert isn't an easy person to talk too. It always seems he cares to much for his son then the girlfriend he's now having a baby with. 

They start looking at the past of the Davis family and what happened to the two year old girl that drowned in the bath tub. The nanny went to prison for 20 years for it. What the father did and the mother and the son, pretty much everyone in the whole house was looked at. 

When, Gideon starts to remember things that happened back then, he decides to talk to his father. His father likes to change the subject and it takes a lot of hammering at him to get him to answer. 

I'll say this, the book kept me wanting to know what and who was killing people using a car. When I did find out, I was quite surprised of the whole reason why. Secrets are a bad thing in a family and with Gideon doing all the writing and trying to find answers for himself, you get the answers you never thought was going to be the answer. 

This is one of those books that you'll have to pick up and read. It was surprising and did answer some of my questions but, not all. There are plenty of other characters in the book that fill in some things too. It was worth reading.   

The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

 

This is the first book in the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel. Nicholas is a bookstore owner and has hired a 15 year old boy named Josh. His wife Perry is Nicholas's wife and she owns a coffee shop across the street. She hired Josh's twin sister Sophie. Josh was downstairs looking for books when all hell breaks out upstairs. He makes his way upstairs and there's a strange guy with some weird walking creatures attacking Nicholas. Josh, wants to help him but, he sees what looks like green smoke and the smell, smells like rotten eggs. 

Mr. John Dee isn't a really nice guy. But, he's on a mission to bring back the Dark Elders that were some of the one's that ruled this world a long time ago. Mr. Dee wants the Codex that will help him do just that and Nicholas has it. With fighting going on inside the bookstore, Josh is getting pushed bac down the stairs. Then, Perry comes into the bookstore to help her husband and in the process one of those monsters grabs Perry and poles her outside. With the fighting, Nicholas Is trying to stop those monsters from taking her but, it only makes it worse.

Sophie and Josh are twins and they are standing in the bookstore wanting to ask Nicholas what the hell happened. When Nicholas tells them that is was magic. Both, of the twins start to question what he's saying. They start thinking about magic shows, but not real magic, in which is what Nicholas is say is very much real. 

He loses the Codex but, Josh ends up with two pages. He tells the twins that they need to come with him because he need to go see a friend. Scatty as she goes by. Lives above a Dojo. She's considered one of the best warriors that Nichloas knows and also a vampire. She's a second generation Elder. When her Dojo is attacked by Mr. Dee because he wants those last two pages. Nicholas tells the twins that they need to head to one of the high Elders that will help then awaken there magic powers. 

It's a whole journey and many, many more things happen. Full of adventure, fighting and trying to understand all the different Elders all over the world and how magic came into the world. The book moves quite fast and you just want to know what happens next. I'm not going to give to much away. You should pick up the book and read it, if you want to know what happens in the end. 

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

 

This is the first book in the Robert Langdon series. I'll say, this was very, very good. Short chapters and fast paced. 

Robert Langdon was getting ready to get up and the phone rang. He answered and the person on the other side told him a story and then, Robert hung up the phone. Thinking that it was a crank call from some of his students. He went about making coffee, when the phone rang again. He heard what the person said. As soon as the word, Illuminati was said, he quickly picked up the phone. He listened to everything that this person was saying and then, asked if he would come and take a look for himself. 

He got to the airport, noticed the plane and was worried. It was only going to take about a hour to get there. When he got off the plane, the pilot said,' welcome to Switzerland." What the hell, Robert thought. Why the hell was he here. 

Kohler, the head of Cern was waiting for him at the door. Robert is a professor of symbology and he's studies many different kinds of symbols and this one he thinks, has to be a joke. The Illuminati hasn't been around for a very long time. When Kohler takes him to a very cold room and lying on the floor is a dead person with the word, Illuminati burned into his chest. He almost gets sick. He's never seen anything like this before. He tried to explain to Kohler about the symbolism of this and what it could mean. But, Kohler just keeps cutting him off. 

The dead guys daughter, Vittoria shows up from a flight she takes back home. She wants to know what happened. When she asks to see her father, she's told it wouldn't be a good idea. When the phone rings on Kohler's device and he answers it. The things said, scares him so he hits the speaker button. All three listen, finding out that four Cardinals will be murdered and branded with air, wind, fire and water in very special places all over Rome. Robert and Vittoria are headed to Rome to stop the from happening. There is more but, think you should pick up the book if you haven't read it yet. OMG, its' really good and the ending will surprise you.